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Overview

This purpose-built clubhouse was designed by the noted Spokane architectural firm of Cutter and Malmgren in 1910-1911. This club, composed of the business and professional elite of Spokane, previously occupied quarters in the Legion Building, owned by Member F. Lewis Clark, between 1901 and 1911.

Building History

The Spokane Club formed in 1890, the year after the great fire destroyed 32 city blocks of the city. It first occupied space in the Lamona Building in 1890, and then moved to the Legion Building, owned by one of its members F. Lewis Clark (1861-1914?). During the 1900s, club members decided that they wanted an independent building to house their organization so they commissioned the go-to, upper-echelon architectural firm in the city, Cutter and Malmgren, to create a new building for them.

In 07/1907, the American Architect and Building News published a news item that the Spokane Club was planning on building a clubhouse for its members. It wrote: "The Spokane Club...will build a clubhouse at Riverside Avenue and Monroe Street, to cost $100,000." (See "Industrial and Building News Section, American Architect and Building News,vol. XCII, no. 1646, p. 10.)

The architects fashioned this up-to-date Colonial Revival style building, that the group dedicated on 12/02/1911. (See Thaddeus Roan, Flickr.com, "Spokane Club Building," accessed 06/26/2024.)

PCAD id: 13332